The pacification of Jiangnan is also a major positive for Datang. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe migration route in the Yangtze River basin has been completely opened, whether it is from Jiangnan to North America, or from Sichuan and Chu to North America, the Tang people have a certain control over this route, which can ensure that the migrants can reach Shanghai smoothly and board the migrant passenger ship.

It is also extremely important for Datang, that is, the pacification of Jiangnan, which has also enabled Datang commodities to gain a huge dumping market. Although Datang has developed a very good market in the United States and Europe in the past two years, and has made up for or even surpassed the scale of trade with the Qing State in that year, it is obvious that the Qing State cannot be ignored. Guangdong, Fujian and other places were successively covered by the Tang people, the thirteen lines were finally abolished, the monopoly system was abolished, and the Tang merchants were able to do business more freely in the Qing state, and its growth was very gratifying.

The Ministry of Commerce attaches great importance to this matter, and even Minister of Commerce Lin Youde personally rushed to Shanghai from China to conduct an inspection.

"My Minister Lin, you are the first senior ministerial-level official of our country to come to the Far East, what an honor." Bai Nan is also familiar with Lin Youde, so they joked when they met.

Lin Youde seemed to be a little fat, his face was round and chubby, and he looked kind, he pulled Bai Nan and said with a smile: "Don't you know, I have been counting on my fingers since you left Los Angeles, and when you take Jiangnan, I have to come over in person, as soon as I heard that the situation on your side is clear, I immediately came by boat." Speaking of which, we really have to do a lot of aviation business, which takes a month to get from Los Angeles to Shanghai, which is really troublesome. Fortunately, there are not many things in the Ministry of Commerce, and several trading companies have done it, and the ministry has set a certain tone and development direction. ”

Bai Nan asked: "What is the plan of the Ministry of Commerce to develop the commodity economy in Jiangnan?" ”

"The economy of Jiangnan is active, and compared with other parts of the Qing Dynasty, the germination of commodity economy and capitalism is more obvious, which is an advantage for our development. In the past, when our exports were restricted by the Qing court. It can only pass through one treaty port in Guangzhou, and it is limited to the thirteen lines of tooth merchants in Guangzhou. The business model of the Thirteen Banks is relatively traditional, and the ability to distribute in the region is also limited, so our export results in Jiangnan are obviously not as good as those in Guangdong and other places. Now China has directly set up the Shanghai Special Economic Zone, which has greatly improved its efficiency as a transit place for commodities. Lin Youde said.

He added: "Differences in economic models. Although it has an impact on our exports, we have decided to take two main steps. The first step is to cater to the main needs of the people in Jiangnan now. We have now formed a cotton production base in Jiazhou, and a large number of laborers have also made great progress in textiles. We are able to sell a large number of cotton and linen textiles, printed and dyed fabrics and ready-to-wear garments to other countries and regions. The demand for textiles in the Gangnam area is huge, and we can supply it just right. ”

Bai Nandao: "Jiangnan is also the production area of textiles, a large number of cheap textiles in my country imported, the local cloth lost all its competitive advantage, and finally completely disintegrated the local home textile handicraft industry." ”

Lin Youde smiled: "We won't plan this in detail from the Ministry of Commerce, it's something that you, Governor Bai, should consider how to use it." Again. It's a good thing that we provide cheap goods to the locals and reduce their cost of living. ”

"In addition to textiles, we will also export large quantities of salt, sugar, and spices," he added. With the exception of spices, which we are generally a reseller, we have achieved large-scale industrial production of condiments such as salt and sugar, and the salt produced by the local salt administration cannot compare with us in terms of quality and price. ”

In the Treaty of Tianjin, the Tang Dynasty did not force the Qing court to abolish its monopoly system, and the Qing court worked on two major projects: salt administration and weaving. None of them wanted to make concessions, and in the end they were consulted and negotiated. The Tang people left it to Jiaqing Yanzheng, and the manufacturing was completely taken over by the Tang people. However, although the salt administration was left to the Qing court, it was made a big move at the request of the Tang people. The Daqing Salt Company also became the first modern state-owned enterprise in the Jiaqing New Deal, and its managers were all official officials and ranks.

The Daqing Salt Industry Company has also changed from the original system of attracting business, contracting merchants, and official transportation and official sales to being controlled by the government. A model of buying and selling freedom. That is, the salt company produces salt and collects taxes on the spot, while the merchant can order salt from the salt company and distribute it himself. Although this method may lead to regional differences in salt prices across the country, in general, even the previous model is the same.

Tang merchants would also export large quantities of salt from Datang to salt companies. for sale. Inevitably, the price of salt produced in the Tang Dynasty is very low, and the quality is better, which will impact the traditional salt farmers, but this was originally the intention of the Tang people, to disintegrate the production of small handicraft industries, and eventually bring about mechanized large-scale production.

The income of Yanzheng was still in the hands of the Qing court, but the weaving was completely controlled by the Tang people. Especially after Jiangnan was occupied by the Wuwei Army, officials from the Tang Dynasty integrated Jiangnan Sanweaving. Because there was no weaving in the new policy, and the internal affairs government gave the Tang people a pot of stew during the Jingshi Incident, Sanweaving eventually became an enterprise controlled by the Tang people.

Silk is not produced in Datang, and silk fabrics are very in-demand commodities. After the Tang Dynasty expanded its sphere of influence to the south of the Yangtze River, the control of raw silk and silk fabrics was naturally put on the agenda. Bai Nan had already imported silk reeling equipment from China, and planned to change the three weaving into three silk fabric companies and introduce modern production.

As for the Manchu royal family, if they still wanted silk and satin, they could only spend money to buy it with three silk fabric companies. Underneath Jiangnan Three Weaving were a large number of craftsmen belonging to the government, some of whom Bai Nan turned into workers who learned new silk weaving, and the other part directly sent them to the ships of the immigrants. Professions such as officials and craftsmen are more dependent on the government, and they have no land themselves, so mobility also exists, so they naturally become good potential immigrants in the eyes of the Tang people.

Mastering the three silk weaving companies in Jiangning, Suzhou and Hangzhou is obviously not enough to grasp the source of silk weaving goods in the entire Jiangnan, which was originally mainly for the supply of the imperial court. Bai Nan also planned to become a downstream channel for all silk fabric manufacturers in Jiangnan through unified acquisitions, which was actually easier to achieve than to say, because at this time there were very few large-scale workshops in Jiangnan, and most of them were small handicraftsmen. And Tang businessmen, who have the financial resources and means, can easily control the upstream. And through the acquisition and control of raw materials for sericulture farmers, the entire industrial chain is finally mastered.

For Bai Nan's idea, Lin Youde agreed with both hands. (To be continued.) )